have (hand)writing like chicken scratch



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have (hand)writing like chicken scratch

To have very poor, messy, and/or illegible handwriting, likened to the marks made in the dirt by a chicken. I can't understand these notes at all, you have handwriting like chicken scratch!
See also: chicken, have, like, scratch

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
HeleenaHE-le:-nahFinnish
MillardMIL-ərdEnglish
Baltassar-Biblical Latin
MalachiMAL-ə-kie (English)Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Narangerel-Mongolian
Alfie['ælfi]